Shanghai Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shanghai Future write by Anna Greenspan. This book was released on 2014. Shanghai Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Charts the changing landscape of Shanghai as it embraces modernity
Shanghai Future
Shanghai Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shanghai Future write by Anna Greesnpan. This book was released on 2014-11-15. Shanghai Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. China is in the midst of the fastest and most intense process of urbanization the world has ever known, and Shanghai -- its biggest, richest and most cosmopolitan city00 is positioned for acceleration into the twenty-first century. Yet, in its embrace of a hopeful -- even exultant -- futurism, Shanghai recalls the older and much criticized project of imagining, planning and building the modern metropolis. Today, among Westerners, at least, the very idea of the futuristic city -- with its multilayered skyways, domestic robots and flying cars -- seems doomed to the realm of nostalgia, the sadly comic promise of a future that failed to materialize. Shanghai Future maps the city of tomorrow as it resurfaces in a new time and place. It searches for the contours of an unknown and unfamiliar futurism in the city's street markets as well as in its skyscrapers. For though it recalls the modernity of an earlier age, Shanghai's current re-emergence is only superficially based on mimicry. Rather, in seeking to fulfill its ambitions, the giant metropolis is reinventing the very idea of the future itself. As it modernizes, Shanghai is necessarily recreating what it is to be modern.
Shanghai Future
Shanghai Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shanghai Future write by Greenspan. This book was released on 2014. Shanghai Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Shanghai Expo
Shanghai Expo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shanghai Expo write by Tim Winter. This book was released on 2012. Shanghai Expo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 2010 Shanghai hosted the largest, most spectacular and most expensive expo ever. Attracting a staggering 73 million visitors, and costing around US$45 billion dollars, Shanghai Expo broke the records in the history of world's fairs and universal expositions. The thirteen essays in Shanghai Expo, written by a team of interdisciplinary researchers, offer a uniquely detailed analysis of this globally significant event.
Shanghai
Shanghai - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shanghai write by Stephen Grace. This book was released on 2010-07-16. Shanghai available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shanghai is the most modern and dynamic city in China. In preparation for hosting the World Expo 2010, a World's Fair in the grand tradition of international fairs and expositions, the megalopolis embarked on an overhaul to transform itself from the "Pearl of the Orient" into the "City of the Future." Here, the world's tallest buildings soar, the planet's longest bridges span toxic waterways, and the fastest train on earth rockets the city from its storied past toward a future that seems, by turns, either as bright or as hideous as the lights that set the hazy sky aglow each night. At a time when interest in China has seen a sharp increase that shows no signs of abating, Shanghai places China's development and its effects on the world into context by explaining how the country arrived where it is today and why it is building massive infrastructure projects with tremendous social and environmental impact. Shanghai provides an intimate look inside a mega-city heaving with change and offers essential insight into the challenges of remaining human in an increasingly urbanized world.
